Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.

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Dr. Willis's practice of physick being the whole works of that renowned and famous physician wherein most of the diseases belonging to the body of man are treated of, with excellent methods and receipts for the cure of the same : fitted to the meanest capacity by an index for the explaining of all the hard and unusual words and terms of art derived from the Greek, Latine, or other languages for the benefit of the English reader : with forty copper plates.

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Willis, Thomas, 1621-1675.

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1684.

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Contents

• title page
• title page
• TO THE Most Reverend Father in Christ, And the Right Honourable HIS GRACE, GILBERT, By Divine Providence, Arch-Bishop of CANTERBURY, Primate and Metropolitan of all England, and one of His Majesties most Honourable Privy-Councellors.
• TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFUL Sr Theophilus Biddulph, KNIGHT and BARONET.
• THE PREFACE.
• ON THE AUTHORS Medical-Philosophical Discourses.
• OF FERMENTATION OR THE Inorganical Motion OF NATURAL BODIES.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Principles of Natural things.
  • CHAP. II. A Description of the Principles of Chymists, and the Properties and Af∣fections of them.
  • CHAP. III. What Fermentation is: Its Division as to the Subjects; and first of Mi∣nerals.
  • CHAP. IV. Of Fermentation for as much as is observed in Vegetables.
  • CHAP. V. Of things to be observed of Fermentation about Animals.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Fermentation, as it is performed in Artificial things.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Fermentation, as it is seen in the Exaltation of Bodies, and Ten∣dency to Perfection.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Motion of Fermentation, which is observed in the Death, also in the Putrefaction and Corruption of Bodies.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Motion of Fermentation, as much as is to be observed in the Dissolution of Bodies.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Nature of Fire: and by the way of Heat, and Light.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the Motion of Fermentation, as it is to be observed, in the Precipitation of Bodies.
  • CHAP. XII. Of the Motion of Fermentation, as much as it is to be observed in the Coagulation, and the Congelation of Bodies.
• THE PREFACE TO THE Treatise of Feavers.
• OF FEAVERS.
  • CHAP. I. The Anatomy of the Blood; and its Resolution into five Principles: A comparing it with Wine and Milk.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Motion and Heats of the Blood.
  • CHAP. III. Of Intermitting Feavers or Agues.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the kinds of Intermitting Feavers; and first of a Tertian.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Quotidian Intermitting Feaver.
  • CHAP. VI. Of a Quartan Feaver.
  • CHAP. VII. Of Continual Feavers.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Ephemera, or Feaver for a Day.
  • CHAP. IX. Of a Putrid Feaver.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Symptoms and Signs chiefly to be noted in a Putrid Feaver.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the Kinds, and Cure of a Putrid Synochus, or Continual Feaver.
  • CHAP. XII. Of a Malignant or Pestilential Feaver in general.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of the Plague.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of Pestilential and Malignant Feavers in Specie, and of others Epidemical.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Measles and Small Pox.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of Feavers of Child-bearing Women.
    • The Milky Feaver.
    • The Putrid Feaver of Women in Child-bed.
    • The Symptomatic Feavers of women in Child-bed.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of Epidemical Feavers.
    • A Description of an Epidemical Feaver, spreading about Autumn, in the Year 1657. taken in the middle of September.
    • The Description of a Catarrhal Feaver Epidmical in the middle of the Spring, in the Tear 1658. taken the fourth of June.
    • A Description of an Epidemical Feaver arising about the beginning of Autumn, 1658. taken the 13th. of September.
• THE AUTHORS EPISTLE (To the Treatise of Urines) TO Dr. Bathurst.
• OF URINES.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Elements and chief Accidents of Urine.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Quantity and Colour of the Urines of Sound People.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Consistency and Contents of the Urine of Sound People.
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Quantity and Colour in Urines of sick People.
  • CHAP. V. Of the Contents in the Urines of sick People.
  • CHAP. VI. Of Judgments to be given concerning the Urines of sick People.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Examination and various ways of proving of Urines.
• TWO Physical and Medical EXERCITATIONS, VIZ.
  • THE FIRST Medical and Physical DISCOURSE Of the growing hot or inkindling of the Blood.
  • THE SECOND Physical & Medical DISCOURSE. Of Musculary Motion.
  • The Explication of the Figures.
    • The First Figure
    • The Secod Figure
    • The Third Figure.
    • The Fourth Figure.
• THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN.
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• THE ANATOMY OF THE BRAIN.
  • CHAP. I. The Method or Anatomical Administration of Dissecting the Brain is proposed.

    • Fig. I.a

    • The Second Figure.
  • CHAP. II. The Parts of the oblong Marrow, and the rest of the hinder Parts of the Head are recounted, and their Dissection shewn.
  • CHAP. III. A Description of the Cerebel and it Processes, also of the hinder Region of the oblong Marrow.

    • Fig III

    • The Fourth Figure.
  • CHAP. IV. The Parts and some of the Contents of the separated Skull unfolded.
    • The Fifth Figure.

    • Fig. VI.

  • CHAP. V. The Brains of Fowls and Fishes described.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Offices of the Brain and its Parts: where first of all the Uses of the Skull and the hard Meninx or Dura Mater is treated of.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the thinner Meninx or Pia Mater, of its stretching out, as also of the Infoldings of the Vessels every where interwoven with it.
  • CHAP. VIII. Shews with what difference the Arteries in various Animals pass through the Skull; also for what use the wonderful Net is made, and the reason of it.
    • The First Figure
    • The Second Figure
    • The Third Figure
    • The Fourth Figure
  • CHAP. IX. Shews by what provision, and in what places of the Head the Animal Spirits are begotten: Also other Uses and Accidents of the Pia Mater are added.
  • CHAP. X. A Description of the Brain, properly so called, and the Explication and Use of its Parts.
    • The Seventh Figure
  • CHAP. XI. Shews with what motion and tendency of the Animal Spirits, the Exercises of the Animal Faculties are performed within the Confines of the Brain: Also what the use of its Ventricles is.
  • CHAP. XII. It is inquired into, whether the serous Humors, heaped together within the Vacuity of the Brain, be sent out by the Pituitary Glandula and the Sieve-like Bone, or not?
  • CHAP. XIII. The Actions and Uses of the oblong Marrow, and some of its Parts are unfolded.
    • The Eighth Figure.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of the Uses of the Pineal Glandula and the Choroeidal Infolding; also of the orbicular Prominences which are commonly called Nates and Testes; and other Parts which seem to be dependences of them.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Uses of the Cerebel, and some of its Parts and Processes.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of the various Order and diverse manner of Exercise of the Spirits produced in the Cerebel for the Acts of the involuntary Function.
  • CHAP. XVII. Of the Nerves, which receiving the stores or companies of the Spirits from the Cerebel, bestow them on the Acts of the involuntary Function.
  • CHAP. XVIII. Of the relation or mutual respect of either Appendix of the Cerebel, to wit, of the anterior, which are the orbicular Prominences; and the posterior, viz. the Annular Protuberance: Also of the remaining portion of the oblong Marrow continued into the Spinal Marrow.
  • CHAP. XIX. Of the Nervous System in general, where its parts (which are the Nerves and Fibres) being designed, a prospect of the whole Animal Goverment is exhibited.
  • CHAP. XX. Of the Nervous Liquor, and whether that or the bloody Humor be Nutritious:
• THE Description and Use OF THE NERVES.
  • CHAP. XXI. The first four Pair of Nerves arising within the Skull are described.
  • CHAP. XXII. The fifth, sixth, and seventh Pair of Nerves are unfolded.
    • This Figure shews the Branchings of the fifth and fixth pair of Nerves.
  • CHAP. XXIII. The Description of the eighth Pair of Nerves.
  • CHAP. XXIV. The Actions and Uses of the Nerver of the eighth Pair, described in the fore∣going Chapter, are unfolded.
  • CHAP. XXV. A Description of the Intercostal Nerve.
  • CHAP. XXVI. The Explication of the Intercostal Pair of Nerves which are described in the former Chapter as to their Offices and Uses: and first the upper Branch∣ing of them is considered.
  • CHAP. XXVII. The lower Branching of the Intercostal Nerve belonging to the Parts and Viscera of the lower Belly is unfolded.
  • CHAP. XXVIII. Of the Spinal Nerve an Accessory of the wandring Pair; also of the Nerve of the Diaphragma.
  • CHAP. XXIX. Of the Reason of the difference that happens between the Nerves of the wandring and Intercostal Pair in Man and brute Beasts; also of the other Pairs of the Nerves arising both within the Skull, and from the Spinal Marrow: also something of the Blood-carrying Vessels which belong to the Spinal Marrow.

• Tab. IX.

• The Tenth Table.

• NN p 153

• P. 189

  00 p. 155

• The Thirteenth Table.
  • FIGURE I.
  • FIGURE II.
  • FIGURE III.
  • FIGURE IV.
  • FIGURE V.
• THE CONCLUSION.
• title page
• The Authors Epistle Dedicatory, To the Most Reverend Father in Christ, His Grace, Gilbert, by Divine Providence Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate and Metropolitan of all England, and One of His Sacred Majesties most Honourable Privy Council.
• Of Convulsive Diseases.
  • CHAPTER I. Of Spasms or Convulsive Motions in General.
  • CHAPTER II. Of the Epilepsie.
  • CHAPTER III. The Differences of the Epilepsie, and the reasons of some of the Symptoms are unfolded. Also its Curatory Method is repre∣sented.
    • The Therapeutic or Curatory Method.
  • CHAPTER IV. Of other kinds of Convulsions, and first of the Convulsive Mo∣tions of Children.
    • The Curatory Method against the Convulsive Distempers in Chil∣dren.
  • CHAPTER V. Of Convulsive Diseases of Ripe age, arising chiefly by reason of the Nervous origine being affected.
    • The Curatory Method.
  • CHAPTER VI. Of Convulsive Motions, whose cause subsists about the extremities of the Nerves, or within the nervous foldings.
  • CHAPTER VII. Of Convulsive Motions, arising from the Liquor watering the nervous Bodies, and irritating their whole processes into Con∣vulsions.
  • CHAPTER VIII. Of. Universal Convulsions, which are wont to be excited in Ma∣lignant, ill-cured, and some irregular Fevers.
    • A Description of an Epidemical Fever chiefly infestous to the Brain and Nervous stock, spreading in the year 1661.
  • CHAPTER IX. Of Universal Convulsions, which are wont to be excited, because of the Scorbutic disposition of the Nervous juice.
  • CHAPTER X. Of the Passions commonly called Hysterical, or Fits of the Mo∣ther.
  • CHAPTER XI. Of the Distempers commonly called Hypochondriack, which is shown to be for the most part Convulsive: briefly also of Cha∣lybeats or Steel Medicines.
  • CHAPTER XII. Of the Convulsive Cough and Asthma.
• THE TABLE To the Treatises of FERMENTATION and FEAVERS.
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  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
  • E.
  • F.
  • G.
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  • I.
  • L.
  • M.
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• index
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• THE TABLE To the Treatise of CONVULSIVE DISEASES.
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• Pharmaceutice Rationalis: OR, AN EXERCITATION OF THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINES IN Humane Bodies: SHEWING The Signs, Causes, and Cures of most Distempers incident thereunto.
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• SECT. I. Of the Operations of Medicins in Mans Body.
  • CHAP. I. The Design of the Whole Work.
  • CHAP. II. The Description, Uses, and Affections of the Parts in which Medicins begin first to operate.
    • The Explications of the Figures.
• SECT. II.
  • CHAP. I. Of Vomiting and Medicins that give Vomits.
  • CHAP. II. Receipts for Vomits, together with a rational account of some of them, as to their Preparations and Chymical Resolutions.
    • Salt of Vitriol.
      • 1. Glass of Antimony.
      • 2. Flower of Antimony.
      • 3. Crocus Metallorum.
      • 4. Sulphur of Antimony.
      • 5. Mercurius Vitae.
        • 1. Mercury precipitated by it self.
        • 2. Solar or Golden Mercury Precipitate.
        • 3. Common Precipitate Mercury.
        • 4. Turbith Mineral.
        • 5. Aurum Vitae.
        • 6. The Hercules [or strong Medicin] prescribed first by Bovius.
  • CHAP. III. Touching the Cure of excessive Vomiting, as also of Medicins to stop it.
• SECT. III.
  • CHAP. I. Of Purging and Purgative Medicins.
  • CHAP. II. The several sorts of Purges, with the Receipts and Reasons of some Compositions.
    • 1. Gentle Potions.
      • 2. Middling Potions.
      • 3. Strong ones.
      • 4. Potions that are easily had for the benefit of the Poor.
    • II. Pills. First of a more ease operation.
      • 2. Middling ones.
      • 3. The stronger.
      • 4. Those that are easie to be got, and of a less price.
    • III. Powders. First Gentle ones.
      • 2. Middling ones.
      • 3. Strong ones.
      • 4. Such as are cheap and easily gotten.
    • IV. Bolusses and Electuaries. First, Such as work gently.
      • 2. Middling ones.
      • 3. Strong ones.
      • 4. Bolusses and Electuaries that are easily had.
    • V. Morsels or Tablets of indifferent operation.
    • VI. Infusions in Wine and Ale, or the like, or gentle Purgers.
    • The Reasons of some Chymical Preparations.
      • Mercurius Dulcis.
    • Corrosive Mercury sublimate, out of which the Mercurius Dulcis is made.
      • 2. Rosin of Jalap.
      • 3. Rosin of Scammony.
      • 4. Extract of Black Hellebore.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Remedy for excessive Purging, or of Medicins that stop too violent Purgation, or a Lask. As also of the London Dysentery, into the Nature and Cure where∣of we here inquire.
    • Of the Bloudy Flux.
      • First, In some measure to stop or moderate the Flux.
      • After one or two days give this purging, and yet strethening Potion.
• SECT. IV.
  • CHAP. I. Of Purging by Urine, and of Medicins that provoke it.
  • CHAP. II. The sorts and forms of Diureticks [or Medicins that purge by Urin] as also the Reasons of the Chymical Preparations of some of them.
    • The Forms of Diureticks that have acid Salt for their Foundation.
    • 2. Forms or Receipts of Diureticks that have fixed Salt for their Foundation.
    • 3. Forms or Receipts of Medicins that have Volatile Salt for their Foundation.
    • 4. Receipts of Diureticks, that have Nitre for their foundation.
    • 5. Receipts of Diuretick Medicins, that have Alchalized Salt for their foundation.
    • The Reasons of some Preparations.
      • 1. Sal Prunellae, or Chrystal Mineral, which is nothing else but purified Nitre.
      • 2. Spirit of Nitre.
      • 3. Spirit of Sea Salt.
      • 4. Spirit of Piss.
      • 5. Tincture of Salt of Tartar.
      • 6. Salt of Amber.
  • CHAP. III. Of excessive Pissing, and the Remedy for it; particularly of the Diabetes [or Pissing Disease] into the Theory and Cure of which we here inquire.
  • CHAP. IV. The several Sorts and Receipts of Medicins that stop excessive Pissing.
• SECT. V.
  • CHAP. I. Of Sweating and Medicins that cause evacuation thereby.
  • CHAP. II. The Sorts and Receipts of Diaphoreticks [or Sweating Medicins] with the Reasons of some among them which are Chymical.
    • Make your Powder of Bezoar in this manner following:
    • Bezoar Mineral.
    • Bezoar Mineral is said to be made after a more compendious way, in this manner:
      • 2. Diaphoretick Antimony.
      • 3. Flower of Sal Armoniack.
      • 4. Spirit of Sal Armoniack.
      • 5. Spirit of Soot, Harts horn, &c.
      • 6. Spirits and Rosinous Extracts of Guiacum, Box, and other ponderous Woods.
        • 1. The Spirit and Oil are prepared in this manner.
      • 7. Rosin of Guiacum.
      • 8. Spirit of Tartar.
  • CHAP. III. Of excessive or depraved Sweating, and the Cure for it.
    • A little before Dinner let him take a draught of Sherry.
• SECT. VI.
  • CHAP. I. Of Cordials and Antidotes.
  • CHAP. II. The several Sorts and Receipts of Cordials.
    • 1. Antidotes for preserving of Health.
    • Curing Antidotes.
  • CHAP. III. Of Indispositions in the Heart, and their Cures.
    • In respect to the former, the following Medicins may be taken.
      • Of the trembling of the Heart.
      • Of an intermitting Pulse, or such a Pulse as beats sometimes, and then leaves off.
      • The Anatomical Description of an Artery.
• SECT. VII.
  • CHAP. I. Of Opiates, or such Medicins as make a Man sleep.
  • CHAP. II. Of the Injuries and Inconveniences of Opium; to which are added Cautions concerning the Use thereof.
  • CHAP. III. The several sorts, Preparations and Receipts of Opiates
• title page
• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• POSTSCRIPT.
• THE SECOND PART OF PHARMACEUTICE RATIONALIS, OR OF THE OPERATIONS OF MEDICINES IN HUMANE BODIES.
  • SECT. 1. Of the Medicines of the Thorax.
    • CHAP. I. Of the Organs of Breathing and their Use.
      • The Explication of the Figures.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. II. Of the sundry kinds of Breathing hurt, and their causes, with the accounts of their Symptoms.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. III. Of Inspiration hurt.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. IV. Of Expiration hurt.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. V. Of a Phthisis or Consumption in general.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. VI. Of a Phthisis properly so called, or of a Consumption arising by fault of the Lungs.
      • 1. Mixtures.
      • 2. Linctus's.
      • 3. Lohochs.
      • 4. Tinctures.
      • 5. Balsams
      • 6. Troches.
      • 7. Lozenges.
      • 8. Powders.
      • 9. Pills.
      • 10. Decoctions.
      • 11. Distilled Waters.
      • 1. Magisterial Medicines and Syrups.
        • Syrupus Diasulphuris.
        • Syrup of Garlick.
        • Syrup of Turneps.
        • Syrup of Snails.
        • 2. & 3. Linctus's and Lohochs.
        • 9. Pills.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. VII. Of Spitting Blood.
      • 1. Juleps and Distilled Waters.
      • 2. Decoctions, Tinctures, and Emulsions.
      • 3. Juices of Herbs and juicy Expressions.
      • 4. Powders and Pills.
      • 5 Lohochs and Electuaries.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. VIII. Of a Peripneumony, or Inflammation of the Lungs.
      • The Forms of Remidies.
        • 1. Powders.
        • 2. Spirits and Chymical Liquors.
        • 3. Potions.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. IX. Of a Pleurisie.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. X. Of an Empyema.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. XI. Of an Imposthume of the Lungs.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. XII. Of an Asthma.
    • SECT. I. CHAP. XIII. Of a Dropsie of the Breast.
  • SECT. II. Of Splancbnick remedies, or those which respect the bowels of the lower Belly.
    • CHAP. I. Of the Jaundies and the Remedies thereof, and the manner and reason of their operations.
      • 1. Vomits.
      • 2. Catharticks.
      • In a weaker Constitution.
    • SECT. II. CHAP. II. Of other Hepatick Remedies.
      • Therefore for an opening Decoction,
    • SECT. II. CHAP. III. Of Remedies for the Dropsie called Ascites.
    • SECT. II. CHAP. IV. Of a Tympanie.
      • 1. Cardiacks.
      • 2. Hypnoticks.
    • SECT. II. CHAP. V. Of an Anasarca.
      • For ordinary Drink:
  • SECT. III.
    • CHAP. I. Of Phlebotomie.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. II. Of Remedies restraining or stopping of Blood.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. III. Of Vesicatories.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. IV. Of Fontinels, or Issues.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. V. Of the Diseases of the Skin, and of their Remedies.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. VI. Of the Mange or Scab with the Itch.
    • SECT. III. CHAP. VII. Of the Impetigo, or Lepra of the Greeks.
• A TRACT OF THE SCURVY.
  • CHAP. I. THE CONTENTS. A Description of the Scurvy. The Internal and nearest Cause of it is chiefly in the Blood, and also in some part radicated in the Nervous Liquor.
  • CHAP. II. Of the more Remote Causes of the Scurvy, by which its Contagion is af∣fixed on the Mass of blood, and consequently on the nervous Juice.
  • CHAP. III. Of the differences of the Scurvy, also of the Signs, Symptoms, and Causes of this Disease; and chiefly of those which arise by reason of the taint be∣ing impressed on the Blood.
  • CHAP. IV. The Symptoms and Accidents which are wont to arise in the Scurvy, by reason of the Taint impressed on the Brain and nervous Stock.
  • CHAP. V. Of the symptomes of the Scurvy which arise by reason of the Conjunct Dyscrasies of the Blood and nervous Juice.
  • CHAP. VI. The Prognosticks of the Scurvy.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Cure of the Scurvy.
    • Purging.
    • Electuaries.
    • Confections.
    • Powders.
    • Pills.
    • Tablets or Lozenges.
    • The Orange Tablets sold in the Apothecaries Shops in Oxford.
      • 1. Decoctions.
      • 2. Infusions.
      • 3. Juices and expressions.
      • 4. Syrups.
      • 5. Distilled Waters.
      • 6. Anti-scorbutick Wine and Ale.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of Medicines of every one of the aforesaid Forms respecting the Scurvy, being excited in a more hot Constitution, and sulphureous-saline Dys∣crasie of the Blood.
    • Electuaries.
    • Confections.
    • Powders.
    • Pills.
    • Tablets.
    • Decoctions.
    • Infusions.
    • Juices and Expressions.
    • Syrups.
    • Distilled Waters.
    • Medicated Wines and Ale.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Curatory Indication of the Scurvy, by which help is afforded to the Disease it self, and to the Symptoms chiefly afflicting.
    • Of the Curing difficult Respiration and Asthmatical Paroxysms,
    • Of the Distempers of the Ventricle, that are wont to follow upon the Scurvy.
    • Of the Pain of the Belly and Scorbutick Colick.
    • Of the Lask and Dysenterical Distempers.
    • Of the Vertigo and fainting of the Spirits, and other Distempers, that are wont to be joyned to the same scorbutical Affection.
    • Of Hoemorrhagies or Fluxes of Blood.
    • Of the Vices of the Mouth coming of the Scurvy.
    • Of the Pains that are wont to Infest the Leggs, and sometimes other Limbs, Chiefly in the Night.
    • Of the wandring Scorbutick Gout.
    • Of the Convulsive and Paralytick Distempers that are wont to come upon the Scurvy.
    • Of the Atrophy or wasting of the Flesh: also of the Scorbutick Feaver, which oftentimes is either the Cause of it, or the accident, or effect of it.
    • Of a Rheumatism.
    • Of the Dropsie.
    • Of the Crackling of the Bones.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Vital Indication, in which are included Cardiack Medicines, Opiates, and Diet, or the manner of living as to Eating or Drinking, requisite in the Scurvy.
  • CHAP. XI. Some Histories and rare Cases of Scorbuticks.
• THE TABLE To the First Part of PHARMACUTICE RATIONALIS.
  • A
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  • D
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  • F
  • G
  • H
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• THE TABLE To the Second Part of PHARMACUTICE RATIONALIS.
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• THE TABLE To the TRACT of The SCURVER.
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• To the most Reverend Father in God GILBERT (By Divine Providence) Arch-Bishop of Canterbury. Primate and Metropolitan of all ENGLAND, and one of the Privy Council to His Sacred Majesty CHARLES the Second, King of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, &c.
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• THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
• OF The Soul of the Brutes, The First Part PHYSIOLOGICAL, SHEWING, Its NATURE, PARTS, POWERS, and AFFECTIONS.
  • CHAP. I. The Opinions of Authors both Ancient and Modern are recounted.
  • CHAP. II The Opinion of the Author Concerning the Soul in General, That the Soul of the Brute is Corporeal and Fiery.
  • CHAP. III. The Various Kinds of Brutes, together with their respective Souls, and the chief Species of each of them, are rehearsed and described.
    • The Explanation of the Figures. The First Table,
      • The First Figure
      • The Second Figure
      • The Third Figure
      • The Fourth Figure,
    • The Second Table, Of which
      • The First Figure
      • The Second Figure
    • The Third Table.
      • The First Figure
      • The Second Figure
      • The Third Figure
    • The Fourth Table.
      • The First Figure
      • The Second Figure
      • The Third Figure
  • CHAP. IV. Of the Parts or Members of the Soul of the Brutes.
    • The Explanation of the Figures.
      • The Fifth Table,
      • The Sixth Table,
      • The Seventh Table,
  • CHAP. V. The Beginnings and Increase of the whole Corporeal Soul; also some Innate Habits and Inclinations of it are noted.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Science or Knowledge of Brutes.
  • CHAP. VII. The Corporeal Soul, or that of the Brutes, is Compared with the Rational Soul.
    • The Eighth Table,
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Passions or Affections of the Corporeal Soul in General.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Passions Particularly.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Sense in General.
  • CHAP. XI. Of the Senses in Particular, and first of the touch or Feeling.
  • CHAP. XII. Of the Taste.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of the Sense of Smelling.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of the Sense of Hearing.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Sight.
  • CHAP. XVI. Of Sleeping and Waking.
• THE SECOND PART PATHOLOGICAL: OR Of the DISEASES which belong to the Corporeal Soul and its Subjects, viz. The Brain and the Nervous Stock.
  • CHAP. I. Of the Headach.
  • CHAP. II. The Prognostick and Cure of the Headach.
  • CHAP. III. Of the Lethargy.
  • CHAP. IV. Of some other sleepy Distempers, viz. a continual Somnolency, the Coma, or heavy Sleeping; and the Caros, or a deprivation of the Senses.
  • CHAP. V. Of thorow or long Waking, and of the Waking Coma.
  • CHAP. VI. Of the Incubus, or Night-Mare.
  • CHAP. VII. Of the Vertigo, or a turning round in the Head.
  • CHAP. VIII. Of the Apoplexy.
  • CHAP. IX. Of the Palsie.
  • CHAP. X. Of the Delirium and Phrensie.
  • CHAP. XI. Of Melancholy.
  • CHAP. XII. Of Madness.
  • CHAP. XIII. Of Stupidity, or Foolishness.
  • CHAP. XIV. Of the Gout.
  • CHAP. XV. Of the Colick Passion.
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• A TABLE of all the hard words derived from the Greek and Latin, of all Terms of Art and other words not vulgarly re∣ceived, with the Explanation of them.
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